Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Passengers in Wuhan’s robotaxis sit in the back seat behind a perspex screen that blocks any compulsion to try to take back control of the vehicle....
...Microsoft’s share of internet search traffic has edged up since it stole a march on Google a year ago by adding AI-powered elements to its own search engine, Bing....
...But this hasn’t come at the expense of the publishers, who profit from the traffic this generates....
...It is therefore unlikely that any AI platform will be able to replicate the customer traffic and volume of sales offered by Shutterstock (or Getty Images)....
...Instead founder Pham Nhat Vuong, who controls the homes-to-universities Vingroup conglomerate, is putting in a further $2.5bn of cash, and VinFast shareholders will retain 99 per cent of the shares....
...Driverless cars do not just have to control the mechanics of a vehicle, they have to understand the world around them and make rapid decisions when circumstances change....
...Washington Prime Group filed for bankruptcy protection in June 2021, citing a heavy debt load of $4bn, reduced traffic at its roughly 100 shopping centres and various concessions granted to retail tenants...
...Yandex, which accounts for about 62 per cent of Russia’s search market, will focus on a spartan homepage, ya.ru, that contains only a query bar and widgets for traffic, weather and exchange rates....
...Figures from Statcounter, which tracks web traffic, suggest that Google controls more than 85 per cent of global online search meaning that its power affects all industries....
...“VK combines the country’s leading social networks with a multimillion audience and traffic, while Gazprom-Media Holding is the country’s largest producer of popular and in-demand content,” it said....
...Google’s critics will no doubt see this as evidence of an out-of-control monopoly....
...Moscow increasingly sees control over what it calls its “digital sovereignty” as vital in an era when foreign internet giants control reams of Russians’ personal data that the Kremlin fears could be used...
...The momentum in Australia has cheered many news industry executives, after years of uncomfortable dependence on Big Tech for online traffic....
...Other sources of traffic to Idealo have increased “fivefold” compared with that from Google search, he says....
...Although Google and Facebook drive traffic to news websites, they have absorbed most of the digital advertising it attracts....
...Debt investing has increasingly become an accepted way, alongside traditional private equity, for savvy investment firms to use existing skills to take control of companies....
...They also track measures such as air pollution, property sales and traffic congestion. The internet search terms seem a good gauge of the market mood....
...The move underlines an increasing split in Europe over the use of technology to try to keep the pandemic under control once countries ease movement restrictions Switzerland and Austria also opted last week...
...This “performance and installation” was intended to show art's “impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route to avoid being stuck in traffic”....
...Bondholders proposed a $30bn restructuring plan back in June that would see them effectively take control of PG&E and its board....
...“Confronted with reduced activity, lower-for-longer interest rates, inflexible costs and higher loan losses, the outlook for bank earnings is one-way traffic,” they wrote in a recent note to clients....
...Most important of all, Sidewalk has agreed to give up control of the data governance....
...The control of ad servers is particularly advantageous for Google....
...It could lead to more efficient traffic patterns and lower energy consumption....
...Websites overwhelmed with traffic are the arch-enemy of enthusiasts everywhere, dashing our hopes of catching Harry Kane or Harry Styles (or, indeed, Harry Potter) in the flesh....
International Edition